(PERFORMING ARTS. BALLET.) Group of over 20 ballet and theater programs. including Ballet Russes, and works with illustrations by Leon Bakst, Jean Hugo, Nathalie Goncharova, Jean Cocteau, , Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Mostly thin 4to and folio, illustrated wrappers, some cloth. Condition varies but generally good. Interesting lot. sold as is. Vp, mostly 1920s-50s
Includes: Ballet Russes programs: à l'Opéra Mai-Juin 1922; Seizième Saison 1923 issues of Ballets des Champs Elysees 1945-46 with Laurencin illustrations Musée des Arts Décoratifs: Ballets Russes de Diaghilew 1909-1929 par Serge Lifar Progam from The Metropolitan Opera Company's American Debut performance of Ballet Russes, 1916; and companion publication Souvenir Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet Russe. Color plates by Bakst and others. New York: Metropolitan Ballet Company. 1916 La Revue Musicale. Numéro Spécial: Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew. Illustrations by Bakst, Benois, Braque, Derain, Picasso, and others. December 1930 Théatre Sarah Bernhardt. Soirée de Ballets. June 1945 and more.
